Rutgers president Robert Barchi announces that he had accepted the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti on Friday in New Brunswick, N.J.

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Keith Sargeant
USA TODAY Sports

NEW BRUNSWICK -- It's one thing when Saturday Night Live makes fun of the affair enveloping the Rutgers University campus with a skit mocking Mike Rice, a light-hearted depiction of an out-of-control women's basketball coach who throws toasters at her players and drives a golf cart on the court.

It's quite another when the ESPN investigative program that started it all compares the affair to the most infamous political scandal of all time.

"One of the great questions, and it almost resonates from Watergate, is who knew what and when did they know it," Bob Ley, ESPN's award-winning host, said ...